If you’ve been reading frightening headlines or tweets saying that Dr. Anthony Fauci is set to make millions off of a book about lessons he learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, let me set your mind at ease: he isn’t. Instead, Read more >
It’s a well known fact that business magnate, philanthropist, and erm, very questionable husband Bill Gates loves to read. He periodically recommends books on his blog, GatesNotes, without exactly promising that reading them will make you rich, successful, and questionable, but also Read more >
Need a book to take to the park? You’re in luck… It’s New Books Tuesday! * Jonathan Lee, The Great Mistake (Knopf) “[A] seriously entertaining fictional recreation of the life and violent death of a forgotten giant in the history of Read more >
Every year on “a Wednesday in mid-June,” the Royal Society of Literature celebrates the work and legacy of Virginia Woolf. This year, Dalloway Day falls on Wednesday, June 16th (Which is also Bloomsday, if you’re keeping score), and the celebrations Read more >
Thank goodness for archives. A Closer Look, Inc., a project of storied producer and documentarian Joseph Lovett, has made it their mission to promote health- and social justice-related historical materials through film—and among said materials is an unaired ABC 20/20 Read more >
Rivka Galchen’s Everyone Knows You Mother Is a Witch, Lionel Shriver’s Should We Stay or Should We Go, Akwaeke Emezi’s Dear Senthuran, and Lawrence Wright’s The Plague Year all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. Brought to Read more >
The winners and nominated finalists of the 105th Pulitzer Prizes were announced today via remote video stream. The winners each take home $15,000 dollars and serious bragging rights, not to mention an instant ticket into a very illustrious club. Due Read more >
Today at 1PM (EST) from Columbia University in New York City (or, you know, various people’s living rooms), the winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction will be announced. As well as a check for a cool $15,000 dollars, Read more >
After over two years of bargaining with Condé Nast, and a march on Anna Wintour’s house, the New Yorker Union is preparing to strike, in service of fair pay; reasonable health care costs; the ability to freelance without oversight from Read more >
Pulitzer Prize-winning authors—they’re just like us! William Styron (Lie Down in Darkness; Sophie’s Choice; The Confessions of Nat Turner), who was born today in 1925 in Newport News, Virginia, wasn’t always a divisive yet critically acclaimed literary luminary. After graduating Read more >
Today marks the 93rd birthday of Maurice Sendak, titan of children’s literature, whose kindness and empathy for children shone through in his immersive, vivid body of work as well as in life. In a 1986 Fresh Air interview with Terry Read more >
Today would be the 106th birthday of Saul Bellow, Pulitzer- and Nobel-winning writer, ardent supporter of the novel form, and, as it turns out, sharp critic of today’s literary landscape. Revisiting his interviews, I was amazed to see point after Read more >
The year was 2014, and Donna Tartt’s sprawling bildungsroman, The Goldfinch, had captured the hearts of readers (and profoundly irritated James Wood, who wrote that the novel’s “tone, language, and story belong to children’s literature”). James Wood notwithstanding, it wouldn’t have Read more >
As a child, the fantasy of living in a library loomed large—the idea of being able to take as much time as needed with each book, never having to leave. Now, Lamp Light Books Hotel has made that dream a Read more >
Much has been made of Kate Winslet’s buzzy transformation into hard-boiled Philadelphia detective Mare for HBO Max’s Mare of Easttown, one of my favorite shows of the year. In The New York Times, Maureen Dowd catalogued every tool used to Read more >
It was announced today that the 59th Venice Biennale will be titled The Milk of Dreams, after the children’s book by Surrealist legend Leonora Carrington. The title and main themes were revealed by president Roberto Cicutto and Cecilia Alemani, artistic Read more >
One should never be too surprised, these days, by the sub-literate, self-interested idiots who pass for members of the US Congress, but Kentucky Representative James Comer (R) is doing his best to get famous for the wrong reasons. Yesterday, in Read more >
Like almost everyone in the history of the universe, Dave Eggers has a new novel coming out this fall. It’s called The Every, but as The New York Times reports, its rollout is going to look a little different than usual. Read more >
BREAKING NEWS: yesterday, Zooey Deschanel tweeted about Olivia Rodrigo’s hot new album, Sour. Real footage of Olivia Rodrigo crediting me for inspiring her number #1 album. (JK, but great album @Olivia_Rodrigo!) pic.twitter.com/hMDezbLjEL — zooey deschanel (@ZooeyDeschanel) June 7, 2021 She Read more >
So. Marie Heaney, Seamus Heaney’s wife, has spearheaded the construction of a new outdoor experience which allows visitors to listen to Seamus Heaney reading his poetry in the landscapes that moved him most. “Open Ground,” part of the Seamus Heaney Read more >
